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CVE-2017-16229

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-02-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In the Ox gem 2.8.1 for Ruby, the process crashes with a stack-based buffer over-read in the read_from_str function in sax_buf.c when a crafted input is supplied to sax_parse.

Affected products

• Ox Project Ox: 2.8.1

References

• https://github.com/ohler55/ox/issues/195
• https://rubygems.org/gems/ox/versions/2.8.1
• https://github.com/ohler55/ox/issues/195
• https://rubygems.org/gems/ox/versions/2.8.1

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